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SLIVERS OF TIME – WHAT’S IN A NAME?

by Stephen Hilton 01/09/2008 in Bristol

I am Stephen Hewitt, Bristol City Council’s Slivers-of-Time Co-ordinator.
As you may know ‘Slivers-of-Time‘ is a Government backed initiative to help tackle worklessness, improve local services and develop skills. Slivers-of-Time IT already operates in a number of places – East London, Hammersmith and Fulham, Leeds and Liverpool.

It is [...]

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Introduction and the Festival of Ideas

by Jeff 06/05/2008 in Bristol

Hi everyone and welcome to the first vlog in this series – Jeff McWhinney here – I am the MD of a social enterprise, Significan’t (Sign if I can’t), which assists all those of you out there who are manually challenged, unable to use sign language especially those providing a front line public [...]

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Look at Me, Connecting Bristol welcomes Jeff McWhinney during Deaf Awareness Week 2008

by Stephen Hilton 03/05/2008 in Bristol

5th – 11th May 2008 is Deaf Awareness Week so we are delighted that Jeff McWhinney, a leading figure in the deaf community and a recognised digital innovator, has agreed to be Connecting Bristol’s Guest Blogger.

Jeff is the former Chief Executive of the British Deaf Association, Guardian Public Servant of the Year runner-up and now [...]

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From KWMC to myKP

by Stephen Hilton 11/04/2008 in Bristol

Thank you Makala for finding time to blog in what was a very busy and momentous week for the Knowle West Media Centre. Congratulations to you, Carolyn, Penny and all of the staff and local people involved in the two-day launch. I went along there this afternoon and was hugely impressed by what has [...]

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Knowle West Media Centre

by Makala Cheung 07/04/2008 in Bristol

I’m Press and Communications worker for the Knowle West Media Centre. We offer cutting edge media services and facilities from our new environmental building, and exciting hands on learning alongside professional practitioners. We are strongly embedded in the local community and run various groups for residents, especially young people.
My role involves doing press and [...]

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Thank You Professor Stephen Coleman, Welcome Makala Cheung

by Stephen Hilton 06/04/2008 in Bristol

I would like to thank Professor Stephen Coleman for being this week’s guest blogger on Connecting Bristol. Who could have predicted that we would have such a lively (and for some, strangely cathartic) discussion? I am sure that Stephen and his colleagues in the Centre for Digital Citizenship at Leeds University will note any [...]

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Introducing Professor Stephen Coleman

by Stephen Hilton 28/03/2008 in Bristol

Some people effortlessly span seemingly irreconcilable divides, for example, by being both anti-establishment and mainstream; a leading academic and a man of the people; a commentator on technology and perhaps also a bit of a technophobe?
Stephen Coleman, Professor of Political Communication at Leeds University, is one such enigma and personally I am delighted that [...]

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The Big Green Bookshop

by Andy 17/03/2008 in People

I came across this blog last week and thought it was another nice demonstration of how people are using “social media” in real life.
When Waterstone’s closed their branch in Wood Green (near me in London), there was a petition online and a local campaign.
When the store closed, the former managers decided to turn the energy [...]

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Global Campaigning, Free Stuff and Cute Cats

by Andy 17/03/2008 in People

Recently, I worked with the Global Campaign for Education, who promote education as a human right around the world. They are a coalition of NGOs and trade unions and they run the Global Action Week, which sees activity in 120 countries around the world. Last year, over 5 millon children took part in the campaign.
Action [...]

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